Senior Associate - SOC Engineer

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per quarter 

As part of Technology, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives that shape New York Life's digital landscape. Leverage cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI to increase productivity, streamline processes, and create seamless experiences for clients, agents, and employees. Your expertise fuels innovation, agility, and growth — driving the company's success. 

New York Life is seeking a skilled and motivated SOC Engineer to design, implement, and support the tools and integrations that enable the Security Operations Center (SOC). This role will focus on engineering and automation activities across the SOC technology stack, including SIEM, SOAR, log data pipelines, and integrations with security telemetry sources.

The SOC Engineer will work closely with SOC Analysts, Threat Intelligence, and Threat Hunting teams to translate operational requirements into engineering solutions. This includes developing SIEM parsers and use cases, building and deploying SOAR playbooks, enabling new log source integrations, and ensuring the SOC toolset is optimized for detection and response.

This position is ideal for a technically hands-on engineer who enjoys building and integrating security technologies that directly empower SOC operations.

What You'll Do:

Engineering & Integration

• Design, implement, and maintain SIEM and SOAR platforms, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Build and maintain log source integrations and custom parsers to expand SOC visibility.
• Develop and optimize SIEM use cases, correlation rules, and dashboards.
• Engineer and automate SOAR playbooks to support incident response workflows.
• Ensure secure and reliable operation of the log data pipeline, including ingestion, parsing, normalization, and enrichment.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Partner with SOC Analysts, Threat Intel, and Threat Hunting teams to define detection and response requirements.
• Translate operational requirements into technical implementations within SIEM and SOAR.
• Collaborate with IT, application, and infrastructure teams to onboard new log sources and security telemetry.
• Provide technical expertise and escalation support for SOC operations.

Continuous Improvement

• Evaluate and implement enhancements to SOC tools and processes to improve detection fidelity and analyst efficiency.
• Develop and maintain SOC engineering documentation, runbooks, and playbooks.
• Stay up to date with emerging threats, attacker techniques, and security tool capabilities to evolve detection and response.
• Identify opportunities for automation to reduce manual effort and accelerate response.

What You'll Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, SOC operations, or related IT security roles.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, QRadar, Google SecOps, Azure Sentinel).
• Strong experience with SOAR tools and playbook development (e.g., Splunk SOAR, Tines, Cortex XSOAR, Swimlane, ServiceNow Security Operations).
• Proficiency in log data pipeline engineering, parsing, normalization, and enrichment.
• Familiarity with scripting or automation (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.).
• Familiarity with automating incident response in cloud and hybrid environments through SOAR platforms (Wiz Defend, Tines, etc.)
• Understanding of detection engineering and use case development based on MITRE ATT&CK.
• Solid understanding of common networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and infrastructure devices (e.g., routers, switches).
• Strong experience working with cybersecurity tools such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR, Phishing Protection/Email Security, (Elastic, Splunk, Qradar, Google SecOps, Palo XSOAR, SentinelOne, Crowdstrike, Abnormal.AI, CISCO Ironport, Proofpoint)
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity concepts such as DLP, IDS/IPS, firewalls, Proxies.
• Solid understanding of Threat Intelligence, IOCs, and Threat Hunting concepts and procedures.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and services, preferably in AWS and AZURE.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity incident analysis and response frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, etc.) and their application to cloud and hybrid environments.
• Foundational understanding of AI concepts such as LLM, Agents, Models.
• Experience with and effectively utilize AI/ML to improve day-to-day productivity through automation, Agentic or otherwise.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to work effectively with analysts, hunters, and engineers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong desire to build a career in cybersecurity and eagerness to learn new technologies.
• Ability to work in a team environment and follow guidance from senior analysts.
• Preferred certifications: AWS Security - Specialty, CCSP, GCLD, GCFR, GCTD.

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $121,000-$172,500 

Overtime eligible: Exempt 

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes 

Sales bonus eligible: No 

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life’s leadership in this space.​

Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.

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Job Requisition ID: 92836